University Resources

Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy - Study on two males who stutter.

Classroom Adoption - Special group rates are available on our books and streaming videos. Click here for an examples of streaming video packages that universities are currently using. For more information, please email us at info@stutteringhelp.org.

Podcasts - Timely podcasts offer a great way to provide supplemental material to your students.

Counseling - Resources to teach counseling as an integral part of stuttering therapy.

Virtual Learning - These live, online workshops offer your students an opportunity to interact with professionals in the field.

Streaming Video - Once you and your students purchase a video, you will own it forever. Plus, we can even put together customized video bundles to complement your lessons. Email us at info@stutteringhelp.org.

Magazines - Our free, online magazine provides excellent content for assignments and group discussions.

Online CEUs - Professors and clinic instructors can earn ASHA CEUs in the area of fluency disorders.

Brochures - Our free, downloadable brochures are perfect to handout in your clinic.

Store - A great way for your students to begin to build their library with our low-cost resources.

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

King George

In November 2010, worldwide movie audiences were presented with a most interesting and unusual movie release with The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth.

Unfortunately, history may have forgotten the courageous and inspiring story of Prince Albert who stuttered badly and never dreamed that he would ever be king when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abruptly abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

Byron Pitts

Byron Pitts has brought much attention to stuttering with his memoir, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges, released in September, 2009. The book not only details his speech difficulties, but also his illiteracy until age 12 and his unstable family life. Pitts overcame the odds to become the chief national correspondent with ABC News.

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

“Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself,” observed Stossel. “The idea that I’m on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes.”

Winston Churchill

Seeking to "remove Winston Churchill's stutter by second guessing the diagnosis" indicates neither a truthful retelling of history nor an informed opinion about a complex speech disorder, say experts in the field of speech-language pathology.

Recent news reports that quote Dr. John Mather, a Washington physician, as saying that Churchill's stutter "is a lie" brought adamant critical response from specialists in the field of stuttering and fluency disorders.

Bob Love

The late Bob Love dreamt about being a great public speaker since his early days in Bastrop Louisiana, even though, as a young man, he could barely put two words together, let alone speak a full sentence.

In spite of his severe stuttering disability, Bob Love, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become a Chicago Bulls NBA superstar, whose records were eventually surpassed by Michael Jordan. Throughout his entire athletic career, Bob Love kept his stuttering a secret from the fans who adored him, thinking he could do his “talking” on the basketball court.